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Building an Enterprise AI Strategy at Jefferson Health
Jesse chats with Dr. Judd Hollander, Dr. Bracken Babula, and Dr. Jennifer Stephens about measuring the impact of AI programs; AI governance and enterprise-wide implementation; reducing clinical administrative burden; ambient listening and documentation tools, including potential nursing applications; symptom checkers and agentic AI; identifying and closing gaps in care management; predictive AI, risk management,… Listen ⇢
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Bringing AI and Informatics Into Perioperative Care at Duke University
Jesse chats with Hamed Zaribafzadeh and Dr. Michael Kent about a recent report on healthcare AI at Duke; AI models for scheduling surgeries and allocating surgical resources; how surgeons and informatics experts can work together to better leverage AI; using AI for automating the identification of necessary documentation for surgery… Listen ⇢
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Separating AI Hype from Clinical Reality with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou
Jesse chats with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou about Roxana’s journey into healthcare AI; recent research on AI performance in healthcare tasks and claims of superhuman AI performance presented as clinical vignettes; takeaways from Health AI Week at Stanford; AI challenges facing medical professionals and patients; using data analysis to guide healthcare AI forward; fears and hopes for… Listen ⇢
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The Next Generation of Evidence-Based Clinical AI with Dr. Travis Zack
Jesse chats with Dr. Travis Zack about OpenEvidence’s mission and its rapid adoption among physicians; how OpenEvidence differs from general-purpose AI platforms; Travis’ background and role at OpenEvidence; the rationale behind the organization’s free access model and its long-term vision; partnerships between OpenEvidence and health systems; the organization’s impact on clinical decision-making, physician practice, and medical education; the future of OpenEvidence and… Listen ⇢
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Implementing AI in Radiology and Clinical Decision-Making with MedStar Health
Jesse chats with Dr. Raj Ratwani and Dr. Ross Filice about MedStar Health’s integration of an AI clinical decision support tool, “AI Doc,” into radiology care; human factors and conditions under which clinical AI tools are likely to work; how radiology residents at Georgetown are allowed to use AI Doc; concerns surrounding deskilling in AI-assisted clinical… Listen ⇢
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Reimagining OSCE Grading and Medical Education at UT Southwestern
Jesse chats with Dr. Thomas Dalton and Dr. Andrew Jamieson about objective structured clinical examinations, how UT Southwestern created a model to help solve problems with OSCEs, inter-rater reliability in the human baseline in their research data compared with benchmarks, how the resulting system was operationally deployed for real students being graded on real exams, what happens to human graders who are no longer needed for OSCE… Listen ⇢
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Improving Lean Methodology and Clinical Analysis at UCSF and ZSFG
Jesse chats with Dr. Toff Peabody and Dr. Lucas Zier about the implementation of an LLM embedded in Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s lean performance improvement process, how combining lean methodology with an LLM works in practice, overcoming data quality challenges with the LLM, a predictive model for readmissions for… Listen ⇢
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A Close Look at AI Drafting and Documentation at Mayo Clinic
Jesse chats with Dr. Heather Heaton, Dr. Shant Ayanian, and Angie Griffin about a study evaluating Epic’s LLM-based hospital course drafting tool against human-written summaries across 100 real hospitalizations at Mayo; whether AI performance compared to humans is a win for AI, a damning statement about human baseline quality, or… Listen ⇢
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Overcoming AI Implementation Challenges at the University of Michigan Health System
Jesse chats with Dr. Andrew Wong and Dr. Mike Burns about what led Michigan to report on the underperformance of Epic’s sepsis prediction model, considerations for health systems as they look to set up a structure for AI governance, market diversity and competition in today’s clinical AI sector, the University… Listen ⇢
Meet Host Jesse Pines, MD
Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE, is the Chief of Clinical Innovation at US Acute Care Solutions. In this role, Dr. Pines leads efforts in alternative payment models, telemedicine, research, and other innovative programs. He serves as an elected member of the USACS National Clinical Governance Board. He also serves as Director of the USACS Fellowship in Clinical Innovation. Dr. Pines is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University and a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University (GW). Prior to joining USACS, Dr. Pines held several University leadership and teaching roles at GW and Penn, including serving as the Director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation & Policy Research (CHIPR) at GW and Director of GW’s Center for Health Care Quality (CHCQ). He was also the principal investigator for Urgent Matters, a program that disseminates information on best practices in emergency care.
Dr. Pines earned a bachelor’s in the biological basis of behavior, a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a medical degree and MBA from Georgetown University. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and a fellowship in research at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also completed the Master Teacher Leadership Development Certificate Program at GW School of Education & Human Development.
